The Arizona League of Women Voters has reached a settlement in a lawsuit filed over masked and armed citizens guarding ballot drop boxes during the 2022 General Election - but details of the agreement remain unclear. Read more» 
Special thanks
to our supporters
- Janelle Balazs
- David Safier
- Michelle Valenzuela
- Catherine Gale
- Michael Racy
- Tucson Police Department
- Edna Gray
- Humberto Lopez — HSLopez Family Foundation
- Regional Transportation Authority/Pima Association of Governments
- Ernie Pyle
- Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation
- & many more!
We rely on readers like you. Join them & contribute to the Sentinel today!
Hosting provider
Proud member of
A federal judge on Friday preliminarily declined to block members of the group Clean Elections USA from gathering within sight of ballot drop boxes following complaints that armed and masked members intimidated potential voters during the 2022 election. Read more»
Attorneys representing Melody Jennings, known online as “TrumperMel,” told a federal court back in October that none of her volunteer drop box watchers to her knowledge had extremist ties, but an analysis of a database of her volunteers by the Arizona Mirror found that isn’t true. Read more»
A federal judge who last week denied an injunction in one of the cases against Arizona drop box monitoring groups has issued a temporary restraining order against the group - saying new evidence presented in a separate lawsuit was compelling enough to justify a restraining order. Read more»
Groups that help Arizona voters are concerned that, if efforts by conspiracy theorists and extremists continue at drop boxes, they’ll have to shift focus — and, for the first time ever, tell voters to not vote in certain ways. Read more»
The Justice Department is seeking a temporary restraining order against a group that is surveilling drop boxes across Arizona after the judge overseeing one of the cases last week declared that the injunction being sought would likely violate the First Amendment. Read more»
Federal judge Michael Liburdi, a Trump appointee and former counsel to Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, denied a bid to shut down efforts by a group that has been surveilling drop boxes in Maricopa County, saying that it would violate the First Amendment rights of the watchers. Read more»
The movement to try to catch illegal voting at ballot drop boxes in Arizona, which is spurring complaints and lawsuits alleging voter intimidation, is not the local grassroots effort it appears to be and is part of a coordinated effort with one group behind it all: Texas-based True the Vote. Read more»
A federal judge could rule as early as Friday on a request to ban groups that have been monitoring Arizona ballot drop boxes, in response to voters who testified Wednesday to feeling intimidated as they cast their ballots. Read more»
A federal lawsuit is aiming to stop extremist groups from surveilling dropboxes in Maricopa and Yavapai and counties - joining an already existing legal challenge from Arizona activists - accusing the groups of violating the Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. Read more»
